Title: Help for https
Last modified: December 29, 2017

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# Help for https

 *  [willy70](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willy70/)
 * (@willy70)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-https/)
 * Dear All,
    I’d like to improve the security of my wordpress site and I thought
   to Let’s Encrypt Certificate.
 * So I’ve generated the certificate with certbot-auto
    I’ve modified wp-config.
   php replacing http with https and I also changed the .htaccess adding these lines:
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule
   ^(.*)$ [https://mysite.com/$1](https://mysite.com/$1) [R,L] </IfModule>
 * but after that I don’t see my home because there are some
    redirect issue.
 * Does Anybody help me ?
 * How many mod_rewrite must be in the .htaccess ?
 * Thanks a lot.
    Best Regards Willy

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-https/#post-9820233)
 * Please provide a link to a page on your site where we can see this. Thanks.
 * Also, remove that redirect stanza from .htaccess and let’s see if the site works.
 *  Thread Starter [willy70](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willy70/)
 * (@willy70)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-https/#post-9820846)
 * Dear Steve dear all,
    I found this guide [http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-ssl-and-https-in-wordpress/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-ssl-and-https-in-wordpress/)
   and I followed it to configure my website that was already functioning without
   SSL.
 * The first thing I did was install of letsencrypt
    using certbot-auto generating:
   private, the request and the certificate. This utility did not make any changes
   to the apache configuration because I did it myself.
 * If you still have some time for me I would be grateful. These
    are some configuration
   files of the linux server running apache 2.2.
 * /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
    … omissis ServerRoot “/ etc / httpd” …. Listen 80….#
   ServerName [http://www.example.com:80](http://www.example.com:80) UseCanonicalName
   Off DocumentRoot “/ var / www / html” <Directory “/ var / www / html”> … omissis
 * inside this file there are no references for wordpress.
 * The file /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf is:
 * LoadModule ssl_module modules / mod_ssl.so
    # # When we also provide SSL we have
   to listen to the # the HTTPS port in addition. # Listen 443 …. <VirtualHost _default_:
   443> # General setup for the virtual host, inherited from global configuration#
   DocumentRoot “/ var / www / html” #ServerName [http://www.example.com:443](http://www.example.com:443)
   SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/atleticaumbertide.it/fullchain.
   pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/atleticaumbertide.it/privkey.
   pem … </ VirtualHost>
 * And the configuration file /var/www/html/.htaccess in the wordpress directory:
 * # BEGIN iThemes Security – Do not modify or remove this line
    # iThemes Security
   Config Details: 2 # Quick ban IP. Will be updated on next formal rules save. 
   SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR “^185\.13\.39\.246$” DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR“
   ^185\.13\.39\.246$” DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP “^185\.13\.39\.246
   $” DenyAccess <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> <RequireAll> Require all granted Require
   not env DenyAccess Require not ip 185.13.39.246 </RequireAll> </IfModule> …omissis….
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php
   $ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-
   d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> …omissis….
 * And the last one wp-config.php:
 * ….
    define(‘WP_HOME’,’[https://atleticaumbertide.it&#8217](https://atleticaumbertide.it&#8217););
   define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’[https://atleticaumbertide.it&#8217](https://atleticaumbertide.it&#8217););…..
   define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);
 * So if I replace “RewriteBase” standard rules from .htaccess adding the new
    entry:
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule
   ^(.*)$ [https://www.yoursite.com/$1](https://www.yoursite.com/$1) [R,L] </IfModule
   >
 * web site will be not accesible.
 * Any ideas ?
    Thanks a lot Best Regards Willy
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [willy70](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willy70/).
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-https/#post-9820958)
 * It seems you’ve been blindly copying and pasting. That generally leads to a poor
   outcome.
 * You do not need to use “FORCE_SSL”, nor do you need to edit wp-config.php. Use
   this script to search for `http://example.com` and replace with `https://example.
   com`:
 * [https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/](https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/)
 * On sites I make SSL, I add this to .htaccess:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On 
       RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]
       ```
   
 * This is my httpd config [https://gist.github.com/sterndata/55bac4f1d833421203cff7816e2f5276](https://gist.github.com/sterndata/55bac4f1d833421203cff7816e2f5276)
 * You probably do not need / should not use lines 26-28
 *  Thread Starter [willy70](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willy70/)
 * (@willy70)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-https/#post-9821749)
 * Dear Steve,
    can you send me your .htaccess ? Thanks a lot again. Best Regards
   Willy
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-for-https/#post-9822303)
 * I have the relevant part of my .htaccess above.

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